I didn't PS out the ripples, that's very close to what the camera caught, unlike the other drop photo I submitted where you could see a very nice ripple effect, though I did use some noise reduction on this image and little extra touchup compared to the one I submitted in the CTF challenge, the PS work in that image was barely minimal.
You can spot the differences :-) Setting a higher contrast brought out the noise in the CTF photo, it was a bit distracting considering the splash was so clean.
Very good. I'd like to see some movement going on in the surrounding areas though; it's too plain, almost like it's been PSed out. But the splash part is just wonderful! ~ Lonnit